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Paul Mason: the Pied Piper of Twitter playing for Corbyn

Paul Mason, who once wrote musicals, has ditched his career in TV journalism to be unofficial champion of the hard left. It’s a big gamble, he tells our writer

Rosie Kinchen

January 21 2018, 12:01am, The Sunday Times

Paul Mason finds it ‘gratifying’ to have young fans queuing around the block to hear himFRANCESCO GUIDICINI

Paul Mason wants the world to know he isn’t a Corbynista: “I’ve only ever sung Oh, Jeremy Corbyn once, at a party, because I’m not into cultism and Corbyn wasn’t there. I wouldn’t sing it if he was there.” This is good to know because since Mason left his job as economics editor at Channel 4 News he appears to all intents and purposes to have morphed into the Labour leader’s greatest cheerleader.

His Twitter feed is a string of angry defences of Labour’s political positions, invocations of Lenin and Marx and diatribes against the mainstream media. Last week he was involved in a spat with the LBC radio station, allegedly shouting at a female producer that she ought to be covering the collapse of…

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